A Creative Approach To Teaching Rhythm And Rhyme

By (author) Croft, Andy
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A Creative Approach to Teaching Rhythm and Rhyme is a book about using words, sounds, echoes, patterns and rhythm in the primary classroom. It is a book about hearing the poems found in football chants, nursery rhymes, radio jingles, TV adverts, raps and tabloid headlines. Most importantly, it is a book about celebrating the music of everyday speech. This is a practical guide for primary teachers to develop pupils'' speaking and listening skills – their use of anticipation and memory and their ability to enjoy language and participate in its common music. It features practical warm-up sessions, games, models, templates and examples to help pupils to become readers, writers and confident speakers through the lively practice of rhythm and rhyme.
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This confident belief in the power of rhyme and rhythm comes across powerfully in this inspiring book which will encourage teachers to take a fresh look at their teaching.
Biographical note
Andy has taught poetry in over 400 schools across the UK (also in Paris, Connecticut, Moscow and Siberia). He has run many CPD days for teachers about using rhythm and rhyme in the classroom. Some of his poems were used in the CBeebies series Poetry Pie (2009). He has written or edited over 80 books. His poetry collections include Nowhere Special, Just as Blue, Great North, Comrade Laughter, Ghost Writer, Sticky, Three Men on the Metro (with W.N. Herbert and Paul Summers) and Nineteen Forty-eight (with Martin Rowson).
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A Creative Approach to Teaching Rhythm and Rhyme is a practical guide for primary teachers to develop pupils'' speaking and listening skills – their use of anticipation and memory and their ability to enjoy language and participate in its common music. It features practical warm-up sessions, games, models, templates and examples to help pupils to become readers, writers and confident speakers through the lively practice of rhythm and rhyme.
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Fantastic potential for addressing the problem of falling standards of literacy and oracy in primary schools
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Provides teachers with practical and easy-to-use warm-up sessions, games, models, ideas and templates and examples they can use in the classroom
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Based on the author''s many years'' experience of working with children in over 400 UK primary schools
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It seeks to encourage a sense of magic in words, the poetry of every day subjects, the power of learning by heart and the value of memory and anticipation
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It''s a book about encouraging children to enjoy language and to participate in its common ''music''